Putin greeted children of freed sleeper agents in Spanish as they had only discovered they were Russian on the flight to Moscow, Kremlin says

• Putin greeted the children of Russian sleeper agents in Spanish as they landed in Moscow as part of a prisoner exchange.
• The children had only just learned they were Russian on the flight, a Kremlin spokesperson said.
• Their parents had been arrested in Slovenia after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin greeted the children of two Russian sleeper agents in Spanish as they landed in Moscow following a recent prisoner exchange between Russia and the West.

The children had only just learned they were Russian on the flight home and could not speak the language, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters, Russia's Tass news agency reported.